Embedding
Flash Animation into Powerpoint

If you're a flash user or if you've got a .swf movie you want
to include in PowerPoint here's how you do it:

Create and save your movie in Flash as a .swf file.

Take note of the path where you saved it.

In PowerPoint 97 or 2000, create a new slide.

From the VIEW menu, scroll down to TOOLBARS and choose VISUAL BASIC.

From the Visual Basic Toolbar, click on the CONTROL TOOLBOX icon.

From the CONTROL TOOLBOX, select MORE CONTROLS icon.

From the scrolldown list, choose SHOCKWAVE FLASH OBJECT.

Your cursor will change to a cross hair cursor. Draw out a rectangle on
your slide (size can be re-adjusted later).

Right click on the rectangle you just drew and choose PROPERTIES.

Under the Alphabetic tab, make the following changes:

EMBED MOVIE - Change to TRUE

LOOP - Change to FALSE (leave TRUE if you want movie to loop).

MOVIE - type in the absolute path of your file (eg. c:\your_directory\movie_
name.swf)
Tip: if the .swf is in the same folder as the PowerPoint file then all you
need to type is the movie_name.swf

Run slide show to see movie run. Make any size adjustments as necessary.

Note: we've recently discovered that if the flash movie is scripted to stop
playing rather than loop or repeat then this command appears to be passed to
PowerPoint - this results in the play command being reset to false. The simple
solution (if you've got the source flash file) is to remove the offending command,
alternatively you'll have to save the presentation with play set to true and
not run it again until ready to present - it'll only run once and will need
resetting before it'll work again!